Published February 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Interference effect as resonance killer of newly observed charmoniumlike states Y(4320) and Y(4390)

  • 1. Southeast University, School of Physics, Nanjing (China)
  • 2. Lanzhou University, Research Center for Hadron and CSR Physics, Institute of Modern Physics of CAS, Lanzhou (China)
  • 3. Lanzhou University, School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou (China)
  • 4. Nishina Center, RIKEN, Wako, Theoretical Research Division, Saitama (Japan)
  • 5. Tokyo Kasei University, Tokyo (Japan)

Description

In this letter, we decode the newly observed charmoniumlike states, Y(4320) and Y(4390), by introducing interference effect between ψ(4160) and ψ(4415), which plays a role of resonance killer for Y(4320) and Y(4390). It means that two newly reported charmoniumlike states are not genuine resonances, according to which we can naturally explain why two well-established charmonia ψ(4160) and ψ(4415) are missing in the cross sections of e+e- → π+π-J/ψ and π+π-hc simultaneously. To well describe the detailed data of these cross sections around √(s) = 4.2 GeV, our study further illustrates that a charmoniumlike structure Y(4220) must be introduced. As a charmonium, Y(4220) should dominantly decay into its open-charm channel e+e- → D0π+D*-, which provides an extra support to ψ(4S) assignment to Y(4220). In fact, this interference effect introduced to explain Y(4320) and Y(4390) gives a typical example of non-resonant explanations to the observed XYZ states, which should be paid more attention especially before identifying the observed XYZ states as genuine resonances. (orig.)

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5635-1

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Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online)
Journal Volume
78
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 1-6
ISSN
1434-6052